Danish consulting and engineering firm ISC leverages the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud to manage its global engineering projects for offshore wind and offshore oil and gas.
Challenge:
Specialized in providing multidisciplinary engineering consultancy services, Danish consulting and engineering firm ISC is a leader in the green energy sector. One of its many offerings within engineering services is to design and develop offshore wind farm substations. As the company’s project portfolio continues to grow, it needed an industry-leading platform to centralize its data, create design templates, and support it to use the latest design and engineering approaches.
Solution:
The company uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud to manage its global engineering projects for offshore wind and offshore oil and gas. With the Engineering Excellence industry solution, ISC has enhanced its design capabilities and established a unified environment where it can collaborate seamlessly with all stakeholders. This allows it to handle design challenges with agility and deliver support at every stage, from concept design to assistance during fabrication and installation, site supervision and follow-up.
Benefits:
With all data now centrally stored on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, ISC can refer to previous designs to speed up the development of new projects. Access to sophisticated 3D parametric design capabilities allows the company to solve complex challenges in new ways. And by opting for a cloud implementation, the company can access the very latest functionality and focus on innovation rather than maintaining its IT environment.
MASTERING LEGACY DATA
Today, ISC can retrieve over 30 years’ worth of design work via the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
“Now, we have all the data in one place, and it is much easier to find exactly what we need and share it in an appropriate way,” said Christian Barlach, R&D manager at ISC and ENOVIA Champion. “Moving away from a file-based structure, we can adopt a creative thinking approach. If you can master your data, you can master your design.”
With all projects organized on the platform, ISC’s engineers can quickly pull together the information they need.
“In a very safe way, you can pick and choose individual assemblies and put them together very rapidly without disturbing the former project,” Barlach said.
ISC uses ENOVIA POWER’BY to connect some of its legacy CAD data to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, meaning it didn’t have to migrate all of its data to keep seamlessly accessing and using it.
“We have a lot of knowledge data in former catalogs and for us it was going to be more efficient to keep some of that within CATIA V5,” Barlach said.
Using the POWER’BY capability, ISC also has the flexibility to work with other third-party design files and programs used by its partners across the value chain.
“If we have a partner that has a preferred design tool, we can integrate the files ourselves or they can do it with POWER’BY,” Barlach said. “We don’t have to impose solutions on them, and it means we can collaborate with ease.”
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- tackle multi-discipline design in context and
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